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with the stories that made headlines this week and today this is the weekly on our t.v. with me. exchange of fire between turkey and syria has now moved the two states closer to the brink of war. on wednesday in retaliation for a syrian mortar bomb the crossed the border and killed five turkish civilians turkey's parliament authorized a military response and the prime minister warned it would not shy away from war if provoked the syrian border is said to be under rebel control arousing suspicion in the deliberate effort to bring intervention reports also suggest some syrian rebels . have western and israeli support a plan to target jewish communities gone to syria.

is being groomed as a possible candidate. broke the story of the opposition could. the irony of supporting the rebels who may eventually become great enemies of the west is something that's lost in the into the very eager interventionists who are pushing the west to intervene in syria to arm the opposition interviewed a group of rebels in damascus who were holed up in various parts of damascus and very suburban i interviewed them and some of them a few of them who traveled from afghanistan said that they had a big fight against the jews ahead of them and this is me because i've met people elsewhere particularly in pakistan who say that they have a fight with the jews ahead of them so they see that as the ultimate. one of the things that was particularly disturbing to me is how close is being groomed as a possible replacement for assad not

a lot of people know that men are classes father. class is a first rate he's written a book called the marts of design which talks about the blood libel and he was smuggled out class was smuggled out of the country by french spies he is he keeps making trips to saudi arabia but not a lot of people know this history behind him and our people should be wary of. close being groomed as a as a possible replacement. that the bahrain which is keeping up its crackdown on program form protests causing more fierce clashes between police and demonstrators on friday tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse crowds of the violence started after the funeral of a young activist who died in custody activists demanding equal rights from the sunni monarchy and the release of political prisoners one of them prominent human rights defender job he's gone on a hunger strike he was briefly released to attend his mother's funeral but was not

allowed to take part in the morning gatherings rajab is serving a three year jail term for participating in illegal gatherings. reporter you made a documentary on what's happening in bahrain so is the kingdom. for favorable. believes a film was censored by the us the. brain is paying c.n.n. to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this content you know is editorially independent it doesn't see the effect that what we've seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had c.n.n. to get coverage accurate bahrain coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators and that's the sponsored content that they're airing on c.n.n.

international that's actually being paid for by regimes and governments and there's by lates every principle of journalistic ethics because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying customers who are able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who run out of the hospitals that were shot up with birdshot and as we were heading back out of these villages we were violently detained by security forces and buffering and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks in our broads and we were able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine surprise when we got back to the u.s. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming into the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage the. violence has returned to well this time it's a clash of the trash at least thirteen thousand angry residents hit the streets and

said calls a blaze over the reopening of a rubbish dump those details on our website. i want you to. comes the latest american city to display anti jihad have a look at whether it may actually be provoking provoking rather even more hatred toward the muslim world this and have many more features and stories waiting for you right now at our r.t. website. angry crowds a clash with police across italy this week as demonstrators demanded an end to prime minister mario monti's biting austerity students led the protest action thousands marched in major cities calling for the government to save schools and not banks in rome up to six policemen were injured as students hold stones at them and try to rush a police van young people are struggling the hardest with the cuts with youth unemployment at thirty five percent while in venice independence a supporters marched on saturday to demand the region go it alone investment

advisor patrick young says the e.u. is just simply heading towards collapse. the european union constantly believes it knows what's best for all of its client states therefore it pushed countries like ireland to be allied in order to basically appease french and german borrowers there are absolutely no positive results from what the e.u. has done over the course of the last five or ten years indeed basically the history of the euro is not horribly saw as an exercise in effectively breaching the people and trying to destroy economies the european union has several fundamental problems ultimately it is a very rich area with a great deal of resources the difficulty is it's very difficult to start a business it's very difficult to run a business if you're successful in business they're going to tax you to death and in the meantime they're all running absolutely ridiculous communist era sized socialist states the truth is western europe is buying trucks it cannot afford the

howard government be the major economic actor in the system and therefore just as we saw russian communism collapsed so too we're seeing the death of western european socialism. well civil servants in madrid have taken to the streets for a second day of protest trade unions have gathered to demand and to cutbacks in the public sector and the properties in the public services we are streaming this march live for you at odds he will call. more of the same the question that venezuelans have to answer had to vote for a president. chavez now faces the biggest challenge yet to his socialist rule from a very young democrat rival. in office in caracas for us the stakes could not be higher as venezuelans take to the polls to determine who will leave their country for the next six years at one end as president incumbent president hugo

chavez was represented a radical change for venezuela and the region as a whole under his so-called twenty first century socialism policy is what this has meant is a nationalization of certain industries as well as the use of venezuela's revenues from oil exports to really focus attention on some of the poorest segments of the population here at the same time venezuela is plagued with a high crime rate one of the highest in the world as well as corruption and these are just some of the issues that have been seized on by the opposition candidate and the previous he's a forty year old very wealthy businessman who criticize the country's economic policies now he's also promised to improve relations with the west now critics say and fear that he would really represent a radical shift for the country in the sense that he could impose austerity programs and possibly roll back some of those popular economic social justice missions that hugo chavez has put into place now the results of this election will be significant far beyond this country's borders we have to keep in mind that venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves and the winner will get to

determine just how to use this multi-trillion dollar assets with the likes of the u.s. wants access to that as well as black gold they aren't likely to get it under chavez administration the president has. to ramp up production and reduce his country's dependence on the western markets by doubling could exports to asia according to chavez as a new world order at that the west is just going to have to get used to. when the world runs out of petroleum only five countries which possess the majority of reserves nurmi those are russia iran saudi arabia iraq advent as well apart from oil there's a political side to the issue venezuela rose up against neal liberalism when it was thought the world would be dominated by washington's will but as well rose up escape the i.m.f. there would not a world power you're asking if my victory in this election is dangerous it could only be dangerous for striving to dominate the world now again the last time

venezuelans took to the polls to vote for their president was six years ago there is massive excitement here both candidates have called them supporters to come to the streets early even hours before the polls opened it's a very festive mood people are very excited about this opportunity to really have a strong say about which direction they want their country and their region to go on and we will of course keep you updated throughout the day on these developments party on this the captain up in caracas venezuela. he is coming here live from moscow u.s. motorcade hits traffic military prevent a convoy entering pakistan's militant hotbed to stage a protest over the use of deadly american drone strikes in the country. celebrations in georgia as the ruling party loses the parliamentary election to explain what led to president saakashvili defeat. the stories and so much more in just a moment to stay with us if you can hear why not say. i

never thought i could earn a living this way. natale issue of oil is the norm or should test small arms so there's a lot almost machine building ploy and not obvious sourced count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the plot and history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the virus in germans so i was here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for hoffa's century it thrived on the message to the needs of the such story when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than

others. this is the fuel truck factory russia's number one truck made for girls a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hit a base a brand new be the way to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the blogs going bad about every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. one can go far to drive. whoa that was. to get one of these to travel to one. less with the cost of about

forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. thanks for joining us here on our to today i'm a rule researcher live in moscow and the pakistani military has blocked an anti us motorcade route which was heading towards the country's tribal hub along the afghan border and the protest which began on saturday is being led by a cricket legend turned politician imraan khan and has attracted thousands of people collins says a large number of civilians have died in the american drone strikes and is calling for an end to the killings demonstrators plan to reach south waziristan an area of plagued by insurgency and most frequently targeted by the missiles but they were turned back and they were ignoring reports that the convoy could be targeted by taliban suicide bombers but political activists to. believe the rally does have the

full support of the people. door to the grand jury go of that region has welcomed him there it would be only an assistance that is being provided by the government of park sound which does not want to open this area of new exposure because for the past five years they've been hiding the fact that zones have been attacking this region on the on the public front they actually deny it but on privately behind the doors of the us government they actually accept the fact just a simple attack on us of their energy and unfortunately for the past five years our government has actually bought into the american war on terror at the american what has now become our war and they should catch on all of these terrorists that are doing it but unfortunately not able they're not able to handle the economic affairs of the country let alone disturb the mission that has been be fall in our country. we're going to be off the world operate in just a sec here on r t for now though georgia's opposition is celebrating

a surprise victory in the country's parliamentary election the georgian dream bloc secured more than half of the vote despite the high poll ratings of the ruling party backed by president how saakashvili is alexia chefs he explains what brought defeat for saakashvili and his allies. it was a jubilation like never before seen in billy c. it felt like georgia had won the world cup. their win was not yet been found but thousands took to the streets to celebrate supporters of it it was this in particular that in central square really see straight out of the exit poll results suggest that their party could be victorious in the parliamentary election something hardly any one of them would have it that only twelve months ago last year the ruling parties rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that so confident was saakashvili that he amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister a position many predicted he would eventually feel himself little did he know he

was digging his own hole when he moved east changes to the constitutional it was a dream that never see the parliament these are the majority of this party but that's a little less clear however this situation did not come out of nowhere prison torture tapes released in september he'd saakashvili the hardest thousands took to the streets as allegations emerged that he personally ordered the torture and filming of these atrocities and now the president could even lose his job with the possible next prime minister busy even if already making his attention clear there were guns this man's ideology has established a climate of lies and violence and torture it will be good if he submits his resignation rather than a starting various procedures to force him to resign saakashvili did concede defeat live on air but the question remains whether he's really ready to let go of the reins but it could be a dramatic change or it could be the herald of

a period of infighting talk of his admission of defeat in a sense perhaps shows that he's a wounded animal but the would be still a fear that he would use the prerogatives of the president to try to split the opposition remember it's a rather disparate group of people who have been primarily united by. still a cheater saakashvili it wasn't only the prison tape scandal which brought saakashvili fortress of power down say experts corruption among elites daunting poverty in playing hardball with russia all contributed the new ruling party says it will address these issues in the first place but as the party continues in d.c. georgia is bracing itself for a new era and the first peaceful transition of power in its post soviet history. r.t. reporting from billy c. georgia. and into the world of there we go will start with san francisco where approximately twenty two just were arrested in an unannounced march that was reportedly marking the one year anniversary of the worldwide occupy movement please

disperse the crowd which was blocking traffic in response of demonstrators threw rocks and injuring at least one officer marchers were arrested on a variety of charges including conspiracy and assault and that of not having a. israel is accusing iran of sending a spy drone that was shot down after entering its airspace the aircraft was allegedly on route to the to the negev desert has a nuclear plant it's the first time in six years an outside aircraft has violated israeli air borders the government called the incident a potential act of terrorism and threatened retaliation. korea has signed an agreement with the us allowing it to possess missiles capable of reaching any part of north korea a previous arms pact with washington restricted stolz of believes he to develop or deploy long range rockets the thing many targets in the state.

launch which the u.s. described as a ballistic missile test. the philippine government looks to have ended decades of insurgency by signing a peace pact with the muslim rebels the president said under the preliminary agreement there would be an autonomous islamic region in the predominantly catholic south it's hoped a final deal will be reached by two thousand and sixteen this agreement comes after fifteen years of talks between government and rebels. one hundred twenty thousand people have been killed in the country's restive. now a misunderstanding that left a young man badly beaten in a hospital bed a russian student who had been detained on charges that were later dropped is now facing a lengthy and uncertain recovery after being brutally beaten by inmates at a canadian remand center and his family and friends say the country's authorities are not doing anything to help as it is poorly baka reports. a trip to study

english in canada gone horribly wrong twenty four year old denise teller cough arrived in calgary in june eager to learn about the country and make new friends it was at this language school those friends would quickly turn to enemies with a misunderstanding over a girl she was charged with making threats and placed in calgary's remand center we were going to say look it's like you work your family. you know you don't know or you know. that you know what not to buy or. something i mean. i don't know why it was a big misunderstanding while his family in moscow tried to scrape together the bail money things took a turn for the worse cellmates brutally attacked him jumping on his head repeatedly after a month from a life support machine denise recently regain consciousness doctors say he's in a vegetative state his adoring family is devastated. not

eating our meals aren't you have you been grooming through do you. call your worries go our way or you know very slowly. the charges that denise faced have now been dropped which in turn meant the detention center was no longer responsible for his medical bills leaving his family facing a financial nightmare on top of the emotional one local media campaigning to raise funds for denise's ballooning medical bills. or what action. all or call them to call it bull or war in. general. or. war or. denise isn't the only victim to emerge from this facility last month another man

christopher kirk suffered a lacerated spleen and a broken nose after a similar attack while in custody. early on in sharpening all we were and it balloon are a lot but. you know when we were buried in groups. in the war i mean. how are the young man so eager to find out about life in canada studying english like he didn't initially set out is now a distant prospect first he'll once again have to learn the basics how to walk feed himself and speak his native russian denise's family can only hope that the country where this brutal attack took place provides him with the help he so desperately needs polly boyko r t. you know just a few minutes here on r.t. we've talked to an award winning economist and historian had to get his take on how

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today i'm talking to one robert skidelsky he's a professor of political economy and also the biography of john maynard keynes widely considered to be the most influential economist of the twentieth century we'll be talking about walking. could bring to today's economic crisis let's get out school first could you explain to me in layman's terms what the government is doing to mend the economy and why you think it's not working well i don't think they're doing very much to mend the economy i think their policies of made things worse. the sad fact is that the british economy has been shrinking slowly almost for a year now rather like

a very slowly leaking balloon and the government of been trying in one or two small ways to give it a bit of a stimulus but i think they're quite new initiatives and it's too early to say how much effect they'll have but in general i don't think they will have very much effect and so i don't think at the moment they're doing anything very much to help because there's an awful lot of talk about prioritizing the economy and it's the main thing that we have to work on but then on the same time you say that not very much is being done at all one thing is that they're blaming everyone but themselves first of all it was it was the euro crisis then it was the high high commodity rise in commodity prices and so they claim that the policy of a staring should bring about the recovery but that it's been derailed by these unfortunate acts shocks but the policy of

a sterile. is basically wrong when there's a lack of private sector demand when banks aren't lending when businesses don't want to borrow when people are cutting down their spending because they want to reduce their debt when the government then adds to that sort of downward pressure on spending then it's no surprise that the economy isn't growing is does that come from an inherent misunderstanding of how economies actually work on the government's part so i do think it comes from misunderstand. of how economies work you see i think the coalition came into office with a belief which was often expressed by george osborne that as soon as a stair a t. was seen to be working as soon as the government committed itself to a credible plan of deficit reduction everything else would perk up there'd be so much confidence that third.